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Topic: Which Boda designer? (Read 2271 times)

Any suggestions for the designer of this Boda bowl? It's clear glass, heavy, with the pattern along the rim seemingly created by copper wheel engraving, and an applied prunt at the end. It's 3" at its tallest, 5 1/2" wide, and 6" long. My ancient eyes see the writing on the bottom as Boda 1 2 5 / (or 4) 8 F * (or very small a) - m.

It's a glass disc (prunt?) which has been applied to the bowl, and then its surface roughened by a copper wheel, I think. The label is also unusual. I'll add a copy of very quickly taken photographs to see if that helps.

Thanks for the information. Do you know whether the Boda signature included a code for the designer? Might the F at the end stand for Elisa Fahlstrom? (I was secretly hoping it might be a Hoglund piece.)

Thanks again for the time you've spent and the details you've provided.

The signature also looks a bit like Boda I (or F?) 25/8 or 2518, ignoring the following letters (maybe an engravers mark?). A piece by Erik Hoglund that I have here is signed Boda H 1998, so maybe a designer with a surname starting with I or F. A long shot...

Looking at the piece closely again, it could that it is an "F" that follows the Boda. That increases the possibility that the designer was Elsa Fahlström, but that's very speculative. One problem is that I can't find anything about her or the work she produced.

I like the piece, but I confess another reason I bought it was because I'd read that Hoglund did some engraved pieces early on, which I haven't seen, and wondered if this was one of those.